Ben Ingram | |
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Name: | Ben Ingram |
Birth Hometown: | Florence, South Carolina |
Occupation: | IT consultant |
Known for: | Jeopardy! 8-time champ ToC Winner |
Ben Ingram is an IT consultant from Florence, South Carolina.
Jeopardy! Run[]
Regular Game[]
He made his Jeopardy! debut on July 1, 2013, and went on to be an 8-time champion, accumulating $177,534 in nine appearances.
Game No. | Air Date | Final score | Cumulative Winnings | Notes |
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1 | July 1, 2013 | $20,629 | $20,629 | Ben's first runaway game. |
2 | July 2, 2013 | $21,401 | $42,030 | |
3 | July 3, 2013 | $11,200 | $53,230 | Tied for the win with challenger Hunter Sandison. |
4 | July 4, 2013 | $31,201 | $84,831 | |
5 | July 5, 2013 | $30,801 | $115,632 | |
6 | July 8, 2013 | $22,100 | $137,732 | Ben's second runaway game. |
7 | July 9, 2013 | $20,001 | $157,733 | |
8 | July 10, 2013 | $14,401 | $176,534 | |
9 | July 11, 2013 | $18,000 | $177,534 | Mark Japinga ends his streak and adds three more wins. |
Tournaments and Events[]
He returned for the 2014 ToC, where he faced off against Julia Collins and Arthur Chu in the finals. He won the tournament, taking home the $250,000 grand prize, and the third ToC winner to not find a Daily Double throughout the two-day final following Jerry Frankel (S2) and Dan Melia (S14).
In 2019, he returned to the Jeopardy! stage for the All-Star Games, in which he was on Julia Collins's team. Team Julia was eliminated after the first round of the tournament, splitting a $50,000 cash prize between Ingram, Collins, and Seth Wilson.
Common with Other Champions[]
Trivia[]
- He once jointly held the record for most consecutive Final Jeopardy responses with Tom Cubbage at 12 (James Holzhauer now holds that record with 28).
- He is the last co-winner among ToC winners, such as Jim Scott (S8), Rachael Schwartz (S11) and Dan Pawson (S25).
- Among the ToC winners, Chuck Forrest (S3), Dan Melia (S13) and James Holzhauer (S35) hold the season's top prize money.
- He holds the record for an opponent who beats a ToC winner (Mark Japinga, 4x).